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In Effort to End Prison Rape, Questions About a Monitor’s Independence
After more than a decade of national legislative efforts to end prison rape, this month was supposed to produce a significant victory: formal audits of prisons and jails around …
Berliners Protest Russia’s Anti-Gay Law Ahead of Winter Olympics
The protest represents a shift in attention from the International Olympic Committee to individual nations, as protesters give their nations an ultimatum: force Russia to abolish its anti-gay laws, …
The Pivot to Africa, The Startling Size, Scope, and Growth of US Military Operations on the African Continent
From the Middle East to South America, the Pentagon is increasingly engaged in shadowy operations whose details emerge piecemeal and are rarely examined in a comprehensive way. Nowhere is …
An Unconstitutional Gag Order Threatens to Further Silence Barrett Brown
Legal proceedings surrounding the politically-charged, precedent-setting prosecution of investigative journalist Barrett L. Brown have taken another disconcerting turn as the government has requested a gag order to be placed …
Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Crosshairs
Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the crosshairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario.
A Non-Military Approach to the Syrian Conflict
The two and one-half year conflict in Syria has resulted in millions of refugees/displaced persons and more than 110,000 deaths. Recently, more than 1,000 civilians have been killed in …
“Frackademia” by Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed
With the school year starting for many this week, it's another year of academia for professors across the United States - and another year of “frackademia” for an increasingly …
And Then There Was One: Delusional Thinking in the Age of the Single Superpower
Only in Hollywood fantasies about evil super-enemies was u201cworld dominationu201d by a single power imaginable. No wonder that, more than two decades into our one-superpower present, we still …
Married to Organized Labor
Union organizers, like Rose Schneiderman, not only understood the vital importance of organizing labor in challenging increasing economic disparity, but they did so in an era of union-corporate wars. …
Married to Organized Labor
Union organizers, like Rose Schneiderman, not only understood the vital importance of organizing labor in challenging increasing economic disparity, but they did so in an era of union-corporate wars. …